ABSTRACT
The painting by Mantegna mentioned by Valere Novarina in his essay Fragile Shelter is also quasi-anamorphic, since the observer can only see it in proper perspective when kneeling: our could say it “forces one to one’s knees”. Aside from persona, Novarina also uses the term “marionette” several times. Novarina claims he attached 1600 fragments, but according to Michel Corvin, the number was only 573. In Novarina’s theater, according to the creative manifesto, nothing is allowed to be preplanned; the goal is the absence of foresight. The explication strongly suggests that the theological poetic reading of Novarina’s texts is difficult to accept on the part of secular French scholarly discourse. The French word for death, trepas, marvelously signifies that it is a passage.
